CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man has been charged with murder in the death of a North Carolina bride-to-be who was pulled from her burning apartment.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police told local media that Matthew Thomas Benner, 28, was arrested near Las Vegas on Monday by U.S. marshals, Nevada sheriff’s deputies and Charlotte officers.

Police have not released a motive in the killing of Amanda Strous, 27, who authorities say lived in the same Charlotte apartment complex as Benner.

Strous was a student counselor at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte.

Amanda Strous and her fiance, Cory MichaelFacebook

Strous was found late Saturday afternoon and was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Authorities think the fire was intentionally set.

Benner is awaiting an extradition hearing in Nye County, Nevada. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney.

Strous was a field hockey player at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2010, the university said on its website. She went on to be an assistant coach with the team as she completed her master’s degree at the school from 2012 to 2015.

Strous was the primary assistant on the squad that won its first-ever NCAA Division II National Championship in 2013, the school said.

Hundreds of mourners turned out for a candlelight vigil in front of her parents’ house near York, Pennsylvania, on Monday night. They held candles, cried and wrote messages on the street in chalk.

Her mother, Crystal Strous, shared with the crowd that her daughter had taken a class about grief and loss in graduate school and had written her own obituary as part of the course.

She then read the obituary aloud, which spoke about her love of hockey and the Shippensburg community, about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg.

“Please continue to find passion and meaning in your life, for without those two things life is meaningless,” she wrote, according to text on the university’s website. “Celebrate my life and reminisce through the good times, because I am in a better place and you only live once.”